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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

G. K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle

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